On a rainy morning, Mike Frederick showed off the Belle Vernon Municipal Authority’s sewage treatment plant, about 30 miles ...

Legislators in Colorado are attempting to draft methane reduction mandates for landfills, but the challenge of appeasing both ...

Support for this reporting was provided by the Wake Forest University Environmental and Epistemic Justice Initiative. Celeste Gracia is a 2024 fellow of the program. A constant stream of 18-wheeler ...

Colleen O’Neil, of the Mountain Watershed Association, fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfill's discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pa. This article originally appeared on ...

More than a month after the state cracked down on the flood debris landfill in Canton, mulch piles that combusted and began burning in June are still smoldering, and pollution is still running into ...

A state board is hearing testimony this week about the Caton Landfill near Naches. A multi-day hearing is taking place before the Pollution Control Hearings Board, a quasi-judicial body under the ...

Albania 's Vjosa River, celebrated as one of Europe 's last uninterrupted waterways, presents a stark paradox: a natural ...

"It is a huge ... catastrophe." Residents report 'noxious waste' from nearby landfills releasing staggering amounts of air pollution: 'This is not normal' first appeared on The Cool Down.

After years of empty promises, the nation faces steep fines for letting a toxic landfill fester in one of its most famous ...

Trash piles atop the South Kent County Landfill in Byron, Michigan. The landfill opened in 1986 and will be at capacity in around 5 years. (Photo by Nick Hagen / Planet Detroit) This is your first of ...

The Los Angeles County community of Val Verde has been my home for 48 years. It’s where I grew up, where I raised my children and where my husband and I plan to retire. It used to be the kind of place ...

The government has proposed to exempt Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) and Common Municipal Solid Waste Management ...